Join the RTS on Wednesday 28 April for this exclusive Q&A with the team behind BBC Two's upcoming drama Danny Boy.
In this session, actor Toby Jones, director Sam Miller, writer Robert Jones and executive producer Sue Horth will discuss the making of factual drama Danny Boy - the story of a young man’s journey from medal-winning hero to alleged killer, and his search for truth in the fog of war. We also hope that actor Anthony Boyle will be able to join us, dependent on his filming schedule.
Produced by Expectation for the BBC, Danny Boy features Anthony Boyle (Ordeal By Innocence, The Plot Against America) as real-life soldier Brian Wood, accused of war crimes in Iraq by the determined human rights lawyer Phil Shiner, played by Toby Jones (Marvellous, Detectorists).
The two men go head to head in a legal and moral conflict that takes us from the battlefield - at so-called Checkpoint Danny Boy - to the courtroom, and one of Britain’s biggest ever public inquiries, the Al-Sweady Inquiry.
Memory, evidence and trauma collide, as Brian finds himself caught on the fine line between war and unlawful killing. After his service in Iraq and years of legal investigation, will he ever be able to look his family in the eye again and be the husband, father, and son, they need him to be?
